IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients
2008 - ROBERT M. GRAY
Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For contributions to vector quantization and signal compression techniques.”
2007 - ALAN V. OPPENHEIM
Ford Professor of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
“For visionary leadership and exceptional contributions to the field of digital signal processing.”
2006 - THOMAS KAILATH
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistical signal processing.”
2005 - FUMITADA ITAKURA
Professor, Department of Information Engineering
School of Science and Technology
Meijo University
Aichi-ken, Japan
"For pioneering contributions to narrow-band speech coding."
2004 - THOMAS W. PARKS
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
and
JAMES H. McCLELLAN
Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
"For fundamental contributions to digital filter design and interpolation, especially the Parks-McClellan algorithm."
2003 - HANS W. SCHUESSLER
Professor (Emeritus) University of Erlangen-Nuernberg
Erlangen, Germany
"For his role in the early development of the field of Digital Signal Processing, especially the theory, design, and implementation of analog and digital filters."
2002 - JAMES W. COOLEY
Consultant, South Kingstown, RI, USA
'For pioneering the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm.'
2001-
THOMAS S. HUANG
University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL
and
ARUN N. NETRAVALI
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies - Murray Hill, NJ, USA
'For pioneering and sustained contributions to image sequence processing and its applications to digital TV, to pattern recognition, and to computer animation.'
2000 - JAMES F. KAISER
Duke University - Durham, NC, USA
'For his pioneering contributions in digital filter design and implementations, and his role in the early development of the field of Digital Signal Processing.'
1999 - LAWRENCE R. RABINER
Vice-President of Research at AT&T Labs
Florham Park, NJ, USA
'For far-reaching impact on the field of digital signal processing and automated speech recognition, through leadership, research, and education.'
1998 - THOMAS G. STOCKHAM
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of EECS
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT, USA
'For pioneering the field of digital audio processing.'
1997 - BERNARD GOLD
MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Lexington, MA, USA
and
CHARLES M. RADER
MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Lexington, MA, USA
"For pioneering research in digital signal processing fundamentals, in speech signal processing, and for their landmark signal processing text."
